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JV!rs. Ennett Writes Interesting Letters From France and Italy. (Continued from First Page.) about 350,000 population. For those in search of the quaint and odd, this is the place, for there is no telling ever what may turn up next. A gar den here and there different from any other garden in the world, with foun tains, statuary, and the most wonder ful flowers-jap?nicas, daffodils and geraniums all in full bloom. Next will be a castle or palace which al ways looks deserted, and churches, cathedrals and fine monuments. But these must be viewed along with filth and bad smells and a degen erateclass of people. This must be "the twilight age of kings" as the palaces are all deserted or occupied now by banks. On his arrival the first object of interest pointed out to the tourist of the cemetery which seems to prove the truth of the old adage that "the best part of Italy lies under the ground!." We found when we went there that it is really the most re-1 ? markable place of the kind in the world. The G?noise take great pride in the place and each family seem:; : to vie with his neighbor in trying to : see how expensive a monument he can put there to the dead. The dead are not buried. They are put in huge 1 vaults, the body being slipped in like a drawer of a piece of furniture. My ? private opinion is that it would be i better for the community if they | spent a little more money on the liv- 1 ing and cut down expenses on the i dead. , We get quantities of fruit and all \ so cheap-dates and tangerines, figs J ] etc., but the cooking is very inferior j to the French. Though nobody can cook like the French, there is more to eat here and cheaper Yet this whole crowd of inn-keepers are a set of cheats and swindlers. No matter , how you watch them change irancs into lire or how iron clad a bargain you make, they are smooth enough to ?"get" you in the deal. With best love to all of you, GRACE. 1 _ I Royal Victoria Hotel, K Pisa, Italy, 1 February 2nd, 1921. y Dearest Mother: We left Genoa "the city of Marble ! Palaces" as it is called, today, and I was not altogether sorry to leave it, J1 as a strike of the tram cars was pend- I ing and the streets were blocked with soldiers and ilde workmen. The only other place of special interest beside the Marble Palaces was the "Campo Santo," the finest burial ground in 1 Italy, and so far as I know, it may ' be the finest in the world. I The trip from Genoa to Pisa is . right through the Alps mountains and j. at least half the distance is under them, for tunnels make up half the ' scenery. What views we could snatch , ?were the usual ones of vines,.orange J groves and flowers, and more beauti- j ful flowers of every variety I have j never seen. Roses, geraniums and .car- J nations are in full bloom everywhere in the open air. Another interesting sight was passing the marble mines or Carrara. I have heard all my life of Carrara marbles as the finest in j the world,, and I can add. my verdict that the hills seem covered with snow wherever it is dug out all through the mountains. Although Pisa is not a seaport, it J reminds me somewhat of Genoa, for I the similiarity is in the age of both, and the bad smells and dirty looking .people. There are no sidewalks to j speak of in either, and pedestrians, push-carts, carriages and automobiles all go along "he same way. Of course j there is a general mix-up and there would probably be many accidents anywhere else, but here nobody hur ries, and one vehicle quietly waits for the other to get out of the way, so there are no collisions to worry over. Pisa is situated on the Arno and has three objects of interest to at tract the tourist: First, is the "Leaning Tower" which started on its "downward course" ages ago, but its present po sition is due to an earthquake, and it was not complete till six centuries later on. Next is the Baptistry, and last the beautiful Cathedral of Piaz za del Duomo. Ail these stand near together, so we had no trouble in find ing them and looking them over this afternoon. On the way we visited some studios of artists who were at work on statuary made of this beauti ful Carrara marble. This work is the chief industry of Pisa, and in spite of the dirt of the streets, it raises the people in your estimation as you watch them chisel out forms of ex quisite beauty from blocks of marble. There is a school here for training these people to this work, taking them in childhood and year by year adding to their skill, till they are able to produce the perfect art as we now V see it. There is no question about their genius, but some are naturally more endowed than others, and these become master-workmen. I wish I could bay some of their statuettes, which are simply beautiful and not high-pri:ed, copies of famous Cupids, Venuses or Apollos, but the trouble is getting them home after carrying them half over Europe. Ever since we entered Italy, these people have repelled me, for they have such ugly, villainous faces, but since I have seen those beautiful pieces of statuary, I feel different. They must have some good in them to be able to create such gems of art, yet their streets smell of all sorts of vile odors and their houses are per vaded with the smell of garlic, onions and unsavory cooking. The bulk of these cities remind me of the slums of New York, they are so miserably poor and unsanitary. The conn'ast between this people and their beautiful land of sunshine, flowers and works of art, is so marked that I sometimes wonder as I watch them, if the United States is not making a grave error in admitting them so freely in our own iand of good, clean, Americans. I went through one of their universities at Genoa, and even that was dirty and smelled as bad as the streets. I am sorry for them and realize how hard their lives must be over here, but I would prefer to keep the odors on this side of the Atlantic. We have all the fruit we can eat, as is it- served almost entirely for dessert, so'wc can always fall back on that if the food begins to get too bad. However, this is a very nice ho tel, and while I do net like Italian rookery, they gave us-a fine dinner with -beefsteak! The first I lave tasted since I landed in Eu rope. Well, goodnight and God bless you. ? Devotedly, GRACE. Take Millionaire Under Liquor Law. Tampa, Fla., March 20.-Charges )f conspiracy to violate the Volstead ict will be pressed against Harry S. Black, New York millionaire, and his ;wo negro empleyees before the fed eral grand jury, United States Attor ?ey Herbert S. Phillips for the South ern district of Florida, said here to lay. According to Mr. Phillips, the *rand jury will meet in Miami the ast Monday in April to take up the :ase. Miami, Fla., March 20.-Harry St. ."rancis Black, New York multi-mil ionaire, rearrested last night in West Palm Beach under the state li juor laws on orders from Gov. Carey \. Hardee, was released today when Edward C. Romfh, president of the First National Bank of Miami, and Theodore G. Houser, trustee of the jame bank, appeared and gave" their personal bond of $1,000 for Black ind $1,000 for the negro porter em iloyed on Black's private Pullman :ar. Black, who was taken into custody ?arly last Thursday morning after ?ocal and federal authorities had raided his private car and seized 55 jases of liquor stored in it, was re cased Friday by United States Com missioner John M. Graham. J^?R. Mandley, the negro porter, testified it the hearing that he had placed the iquor aboard without Black's knowl edge. Although Black was still under $50 bond to appear in Coconut Grove po ?cecourt tomorrow, he left imme diately after his hearing here. Yesterday Governor Hardee tele graphed Sheriff Allen of Dade county asking information as to the dispo sition of the case and in a later mes sage informed the sheriff that Black's release by federal authorities did not axonerate him under the state laws. The sheriff at once swore out war rants for Black and his porter, J. R. Mandley, and wired the West Palm Beach authorities to hold the mil lionaire. Black supplied a cash bond of $2,000 for himself and porter. This bond will be returned to him to day ,being automatically cancelled by that of the Miami bankers. Black and his car returned to Mi ami this morning. When Black appeared in Coconut Grove police court he also will face a charge of storing liquor in a shack near here on Biscayne Bay, said to be owned by him. She States It Mildly. While suffering with a severe at tack of the grip and threatened with pneumonia, Mrs. Annie H. Cooley, of Middlefield, Conn., began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was very much benefitted by its use. The pains in the chest soon disappear ed, the cough became loose, expecto ration easy and in a short time she was as well as ever. Mrs. Cooley says she cannot speak too highly in praise of this remedy. Make Life Clean and Joyous. The "fourteen points" cf the "Wo man's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church in the United States, are be ing printed everywhere. They part of an "appeal for a nationwide return to sanity and right living order that the lives of all the peopl may be clean and joyous," as well ?'a denouncement of present con Lions." These fourteen points hav we believe, been given before in thesi columns, but they will bear repeti tion: Silence vulgar conversations. Don't swear. Avoid improper drinking. Cease painting your face. Stop joyriding. Shun suggestive motion picture Eliminate promiscuous dance hall Ban immoral plays. Bar salacious literature. Beware of the general indifferenc to reasonable safeguard of prop1 conduct. Make life clean and joyous. The Florida Times-Union regards these appeals as being made to the elders more than to the young people, saying: " There is nothing that pa rents of today need to do so much as to have regard for their personal conduct, especially, as they are set i.ngcxamples for their children. What :an be expected of children whose pa rents desregard the niceties of life "Generally speaking it will be well for all people to decide to make these "fourteen points" as put forth by the woman's auxiliary, their individ ual guide to conduct. Their observ ance will not only help their own lives to be "clean and joyous" but will have a very decided influence for good on the younger members of the family and of society of today." This Woman's Auxiliary has under taken a splendid work, and its effort is sure to result in good. There is in the world today-in our world-too pronounced a departure from the simplicity and purity of langauge and manners. It is, propably, more notice able among the young people. How ever, the young people will not go far astray, and will not remain long astray, if their elders proceed along the lines of refinement and purity in this conduct.-Augusta Chronicle. gestion ? Many persons, otherwises vigorous and healthy, are' bothered occasionally with Indigestion. The effects of a disordered stomach on the system are dangerous, and prompt treatment of indiges tion is important. "The only medicine I have needed has been -something to aid diges tion and clean the liver," writes Mr. Fred Asbby, a McKinney, Texas, farmer. "My medicine is El 0 a El a Thedford's a for indigestion and stomach trouble of any kind. I have never found anything that touches the spot, like Black Draught. I take lt in broken doses after meals. For a long time I tried pills, which grip ed and didn't give the good results. Black-Draught liver medicine is easy to take, easy to keep, inexpensive." Get a package from your druggist today-Ask for and insist upon Thedford's-the only genuine. Get it today. E 84 B EE Q S Q Hastings Seeds 1921 Catalog Free] It's ready now. 116 handsomely ll? lustrated pages of worth-while seed j and garden news: This new catalog, we believe, is the most valuable seed book ever published. It contains twenty full jages ot the most popular vegetables and flowers in their natu ral colors, the finest work of its kind] ever attempted. With our photographic illustrations,! and color pictures also from photo graphs, we show you just what you grow with Hastings' Seeds even be fore you order the seeds. This cata log makes garden and flower bed planning easy and it should be in ev ery single Southern home. Write us a posl-card for it, giving your name and address. It will come to you by return mail and you will be mighty glad you've got it. Hastings' Seeds are the Standard of the South and they have the larg est mail order seed house in the world back of them. They've got to be the best. Write now for the 1921 cata? log. It is absolutely free. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. Bueirfen's Ernies SaSve fhe Best Salve In The Werai, The Marrying: of Billy By MAY ISABEL BOYNTON (? 1921, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.I Uncle Nallian was the first to agi tate the question of getting Billy mar ried, and the rest of the Cummings family followed the idea like a fox hound the scent of the anise bas. Billy was twenty-eight, well estab lished in his profession, the law-un usually well established, in fact, bur then, Billy was a little bit "unusually well" in the eyes of his family, and if he had not possessed a level head would have been utterly spoiled long ayo instead of being the splendid spec imen of young manhood he was. An only child-the-last male repre sentative of a proud old family, a great responsibility rested upon him. So forthwith a family council was called and Billy summoned home. He came, listened to the admonitions and advice of his father and uncles and aunts unto the second and third generations-Billy's mother was dead -understood perfectly well why cer tain fair damsels who like himself be longing to Ashton's "first families," were persistently thrown in his way; had a good time, looked upon the fam ily maneuvers as something of a joke, and returned to his office. Once, twice, three times was he called home in like manner, and on the occasion of his third departure Silas Cummings spoke to him in no uncertain terms. "I want you to get married." he said bluntly, "and have a family to keep up the name. It's a good name and one to be proud of. We've money and we've brains. At your age I was married and had two children-you and your sister that died. You've danced round the bush long enough. Within six months I want you to bring your wife to me." "Why, I intended to marry," Billy stammered, and he blushed a little. "In fact there is a little girl in the city I-" Old Silas Blew up. "You'll marry no strange city girl who doesn't know a turnip from a croquet ball. There's plenty of good ones right here at home, sir-girls we've known all their lises and their folks before 'em. Marry without ray consent and I'll disown you !" xVs old Silas grew red, young Billy grew white. They measured each other eye to eye. There was an om inous silence, finally broken by Billy. "I promise never to enter into any marriage to which you have ever re fused your consent," and lie held out his hand. Silas grasped it-and beamed. "I knew you'd listen to reason. No tro"'!e fmni me under those condi tion.-- noihing but my blessing for you and your future wife, and you know a Cummin- never goes back on his word. v ^o to it, my boy!" "I'm g( Billy answered, but his father d >' see the twinkle In his eye. It w i three months since Billy ano his . cher had had that con versation, and with no move on Billy's part. Silas was growing restless, when one day there came a note from Billy. "Coming home- for three weeks' va cation. Get your blessing ready, dad," and Silas beamed with satisfaction. This could mean but one thing Billy was coming home to choose a wife. If the fatted calf was not lit erally killed, it was figuratively many times over, and to crown all, Silas bought a nifty sedan car. "The old boneshaker is good enough for me." he confided to Brother Na than, "but I want Billy to have the best there is, though how in thunder a fellow does any courting in one of the contraptions unless h? stalls the engine is more than I can see." Silas drove the sedan to the sta tion himself to meet Billy, with a smile on his face that threatened to dislocate his law. Billy came dowe the steps of the car-but what-? He was turning to assist a young woman: -such a young woman, too, Silas had to admit to himself, as Ashton could not boast of-so dainty, so sweet and altogether adorable did she look to even his prejudiced eyes. "Father," Billy said quietly, "my wife-the little girl I once spoke about to you. Frances, this is my father, the best dad that ever was." Perhaps he was all Billy said, bu: he didn't look it. The storm gathered and broke. "You young scamp!" he shouted. "Didn't I tell you if you married with out my consent you'd be QO son of mine?" "Easy!" Billy cautioned. "People are looking at you and you'll frighten Frances. You promised to give your blessing to any marriage to which you had not refused your consent, and you never refused It to my marrying Frances-and you know a Cummings never goes back on his, word !" "You-you-" Silas sputtered. Once again the two men measured each other eye to eye, and the twinkle In Billy's must have been contagious, for Silas commenced to grin. "You young rascal !" and he slapped Billy affectionately on the back and held out his hand to Frances. "Wel come home, daughter!" he said cor dially. "And remember," he chuckled, "that you've married a mighty smart man." Bad Taste. "Yes. he made a complete fool of himself when I refused him." "Huh?" "Went and married another giri." We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tile. Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Etc. Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 63c5 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits - - - $190,000.00 Total Resources Over.$800,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE ?S WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open vour account with us for the year 1920. Invest your pavings in one of our Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Lock boxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc. All business matters referred to us pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. IT S NOT WHAT OU MAKE UT WHAT 'OU SAVE THAT COUNTS CoDyrizht 190!>, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account. Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.